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Kyles, Cedric

Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CED

Tóibín, Colm

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Monroe, Mary

Summary: Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Whitehead, Colson

Summary: It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Johnson, Sadeqa

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOH

Steel, Danielle

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Mathis, Ayana

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Hannah, Kristin

Summary: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods. The crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAN

Napolitano, Ann

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him, so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it's as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family's dreamer, is happiest with her nose in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAP

Napolitano, Ann

6 holds on 15 copies

Summary: "William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAP

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NAP

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAP

Napolitano, Ann

Summary: "William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 0000

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Hannah, Kristin

5 holds on 13 copies

Summary: "From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

4 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAN

Colbert, Brandy

Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COL

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